D for embedded system

Matthew Caron Matt.Caron at redlion.net
Tue Jan 8 10:14:39 PST 2013


On 01/08/2013 11:58 AM, Freddie Chopin wrote:
> To be even more specific - I'm talking about microCONTROLLERS (not
> micro-processors), ARM Cortex-M3 or Cortex-M4, STM32, LPC17xx, maybe
> even Cortex-M0 if the footprint is low enough... So no MMU, sometimes
> MPU (rarely), ROM in "hundreds of kilobytes", RAM in "tens of kilobytes"
> (sometimes less, rarely over 100kB - only for really big chips).

That makes sense. Our "smart" systems are, at a minimum, an ARM9 core 
(like an Atmel AT91), and we're drooling over the latest TI offerings 
(Cortex-A9 type stuff, like what's on the BeagleBone).

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